Mass. Nurses Association

The agreement with Southcoast Health follows almost three years of negotiations interrupted by the COVID pandemic, and covers nearly 700 nurses at St. Luke's.

Nurses say the decision to end maternity services at Tobey will negatively impact hundreds of families who rely on local care.

BOSTON (AP) _ Committees supporting and opposing questions on the November ballot have already raised more than $2.4 million. By far, the most money pouring into the questions have come from labor unions including the Massachusetts Nurses Association, which backs a proposal calling for strict nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals...

An administrative law judge says Southcoast Hospital Group violated labor laws during a recent contract negotiation with the union representing nurses at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. The National Labor Relations Board says Southcoast Hospital Group failed to provide information requested by the union relevant to the negotiations, and that Southcoast also introduced a regressive wage proposal that vi

The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against the Southcoast Hospital Group alleging it's bargained in bad faith with nurses at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. The union representing those nurses, the Mass. Nurses Association, says bargaining began in November, 2014, but the hospital declared an impasse less than six months later...

A new state law sets strict limits on the number of patients that registered nurses who work in hospital intensive care units can be assigned to at a given time. The law, approved by the Legislature in June, took effect this week in Massachusetts...